Author: wnevets

This is Money reported on 26/04/2022 that a leading mechanical engineering group has criticised European governments – including the UK – for plans to axe combustion engine vehicles from the market to meet net zero targets, saying it is fossil fuel that is the real problem.

Plans to allow only new electric vehicles on sale from 2035 is ‘the wrong way to go’ because the internal combustion engine is ‘ecological and economically advantageous,’ the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) says.

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Taxi Drivers are not Eco-Criminals

With the council seeking to enforce an age limit of 10 years and minimum EURO6 for diesel on new application or renewal (minimum Euro4 for petrol), where does that leave the vialibilty of our businesses?

Such aggresive policy making, could shrink a trade that is already struggling to get drivers to begin with, following the effects of the pandemic, purely by forcing the trade to write cheques their businesses cannot cash, or take on finance that could sink them under!

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Average prices have increased for 17 consecutive months.

James Fossdyke reported on uk.motor1.co.uk website that the growth in the value of used cars has doubled in just three months amid supply shortages in the new car market, according to new data. Figures released by online used car marketplace Auto Trader show the average price of a used car hit £15,288 in August, marking 17 consecutive months of increases.

The Auto Trader data, which is based on analysis of around 900,000 used cars, shows price growth hit an all-time high in August, with a 17.2-percent increase in prices compared with the same month in 2020. That’s more than double the growth recorded in May, when prices were up by more than eight percent.

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The Daily Express reported on 27/04/2022 that the Government’s Chief Science Adviser (Sir Patrick Valance) laid out a path to tackling global warming yesterday that included eating less meat, cycling to work and flying less. But he said the idea that everyone should buy an electric vehicle was “totally impossible”.

He told the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee: “It’s all very well to talk about buying an electric car, but it’s totally impossible for the vast majority of the population.”

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